Less than fifteen thousand rounds to go! The gun continues to perform without any trouble even though it’s gone more than eight thousand rounds since it was last cleaned. The biggest news was the day John_Wayne777 spent shooting the pistol as reported here. Thanks to JW777 for that… he could have chosen to shoot his own carry gun that day, instead.

In anticipation of the Speed Kills class in a few weeks, I’ve been working on my accuracy at speed for the past few days. One place it’s clearly showing results is the split on the 3×5 card from the F.A.S.T.:

4.49 (clean): 1.46, .40 / 1.76 / .22, .21, .44

4.26 (clean): 1.47, .38 / 1.75 / .22, .22, .22

4.38 (clean): 1.47, .36 / 1.93 / .22, .19, .21

So I’ve taken almost a tenth of a second off my score just by improving that split.

My reloads have also continued to improve thanks to endless 1-R-2 drills. My best run of the week was 2.85 (1.07 draw, 1.56 reload) from underneath an untucked polo as cover garment. I’d really like to be consistently in the 1.5’s on my reloads, but the closed front concealment garment makes it a real challenge.

Nothing special going on this next week, so there should be plenty of opportunities to hit the range and get rounds through the gun! See you next Thursday…

7 Responses to “P30 Thursday: Week Thirty-Nine”

Over 8,000 rounds since the last cleaning?! Wow! What a testament to the gun! I keep bouncing back to your site for new training tips but haven’t really followed too closely with the P30 but just read this post. Amazing, truly amazing!

I live in Alexandria VA so hopefully I can meet up with you guys sometime. I just got an M&P9 and absolutely love it! A Raven Phantom holster is on the way too.

I love the site and plan on getting one of those challenge coins someday. You guys watch out! Haha! Keep it up!

i’d be curious to see an estimate of the total rounds todd has fired so far during his lifetime. the only thing stopping me from asking is the fear that he probably has an actual log of an exact count for it including the date, hour: minute: second each round was fired including weather conditions along with lunar phase.

David — I don’t have any records from my Beretta (or pre-Beretta) days on hand. I would estimate that I shot approximately the same amount during my years at Beretta as I did at SIG. So in the past ten years, that adds up to just about 500,000 rounds.